Do you want to improve your painting skills? Great Artists Steal is series of videos that will help you do just that. My name is Ian Ellis and I have been a painter for nearly 40 years and art teacher for 30 years and I will share with you all the experience I have gained teaching students here in London.
Thanks for your comments Mixing colour is like playing music. After years of practice you tend to know what happens when you mix a combination of colours. Colour theory helps to speed up learning. Have a look at my colour theory videos if you want to improve your skills.
Thanks. Yes he’s the best isn’t he Cézanne. It’s like football. Messi is the best. I like what you described about the flat and the spatial in the picture. And how he added dabs of a unifying colour to unify the picture. It’s the same with the blues in his woman with the coffee pot. There are bits of blue all over the painting and all over her, which sounds weird, but it looks right in the picture. You mix the colours like magic. You obviously know in advance what the mix will turn out like.
Finally, someone simplify color mixing & demonstrates the how/why color changes once applying to canvas.…thanks Ian…please come back to doing RU-vid 🙏💖 USA 🇺🇸
Cezanne drained some of the oil out of the tube paint by putting the paint on paper . The paper absorbed the oil . Monet did this too, and so did I . The paint becomes quite stiff after this , so he used turps to thin it down . He did not blend . Strokes side by side . It took him over 170 ( ? ) sittings for a particular portrait. His earlier work was not done in this fashion. Because his paint did not contain much oil , it did not crack , or not as much. Oil in paint yellows the pictures, less oil , less yellowing. I don’t think he painted like you at all. No he did not .
Thank you Dietman for your comments which are very helpful I do the same too if I want dry paint. But this depends on the colour I am using as some colours are opaque and others are transparent. . Orange for instance is opaque and loses it's quality quickly when white is added. So it needs to be glazed and oil is better for doing this as the quality of the colour does not fade when it dries. If you look at Cezanne's works he appears to be doing the same. Cracking is nothing to do with medium used but tends to happen more when the turps or oil is not consistent throughout the painting as some areas will dry before others.
Sorry to disappoint but stopped because my film maker is too busy. Zorn's mixing is like Freud's. The video on colour perception explains why certain colours appear to change hue when the neutral colours black, white and grey are added
Sam you are a genius. Pay no attention to the professor do nothings in the comments. You sir have inspired me beyond the precipice of getting stuck in. Thank you so much for your time.
I have just come across your videos Ian. Thankyou so much for posting this, it explains everything so clearly to me. I have been painting on and off for many years and no one has ever explained these concepts as logically as you have. I can’t wait to get home and practice! Thankyou
I return to this video again and again, so educational. Love how you mix the tech topic with interesting remarks regarding different painters and art in general. Thank you!
I should trust myself more. When I was analysing Cezanne I've seen those black paints in hi work that looked really dark. But I've been thinking, can't be black, he was mixing it to get it. It's what we've been told it's no, no. I've also noticed lots of hard thin black lines in some of his work, like he was using black or dark blue ink for underdrawing. Does anyone knows anything about that? Thanks for the video, by the way.
Absolutely, never understood why people waste their time with a profuse pallete. Best research you can do is to understand that all full color printed materials are made from 4 inks: yellow, cyan,magenta and black.
This whole "no-black is better" myth is disarming a lot of people of ton of possibilities, as well the black is so expressive. Of course some people treat shadow=black and if badly executed the effect is off putting, hence it's helpful to take this pigment off the palette.
It depends, I think on the type of painting you want to. Half mixes, for example, can not be done if you use black to darken a colour. Unless you want black to show.
@@GreatArtistsSteal Black is hardly black in mixes, mixed with yellow/ish colors it will turn subtle green, with white - it have cold hue and in context will look like blue, not grey. In glazes thin layers of black actually will warm the colors (while white glaze will make them look cold) Overall, Apelles (Zorn) palette can be all you need, and can easily be modified with additional color or two.
Hi Ian, how do you reduce (or increase) the value of a colour without losing colour intensity/chroma? Very confused about how to adjust value but maintain the same colour intensity. Are these two different techniques?
When you darken the intensity is always less. However when you lighten some of the dark cool hues with a small amount of white the intensity increases. Eg viridian, French ultramarine blue. Prussian blue, Phthalo blue.
In January 1942, Jo (Hopper's partner) in a letter to Edward's sister, Marion, she wrote, "Ed has just finished a very fine picture-a lunch counter at night with 3 figures. Night Hawks would be a fine name for it. E. posed for the two men in a mirror and I for the girl. He was about a month and half working on it."
